Sex charges added against high school shooting suspect

New criminal sexual conduct charges have been added against a Genesee County man already charged with a school shooting plot in Linden and on probation in a Livingston County criminal sexual conduct case.

Five new charges, including charges of third degree criminal sexual conduct and possessing and disseminating child sexually abusive materials have been added to charges already brought against Ryan William Stevens.

Stevens, 18, is also on probation in Livingston County after a 2014 guilty plea to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct for having sex with a girl under the age of 16.

The current charges came out of the investigation involving the school threat, Genesee prosecutor's offices spokesman John Potbury said. Stevens is charged with making and distributing a smart phone video involving a sexual act involving an underage Genesee County girl. The video was taken at a Flint Township motel, Potbury said.

The charges, which also include abetting in child sexually abusive activity and using a computer to commit a crime, could bring combined sentences of more than 55 years upon conviction.

A Genesee County judge has ordered Stevens to undergo an evaluation for competency and criminal responsibility in the school shooting case, in which he and two other male suspects are charged with threatening to kill a student Oct. 30 at Linden High School.

Stevens is charged with conspiracy to commit attempted first-degree murder and making a false report or threat of terrorism in that case.

Authorities charge Stevens’ and his 15-year-old co-defendants had allegedly plotted to kill the student then shoot up the Genesee County high school, allegedly in response to a derogatory Instagram post a female student had made about Stevens. Stevens is being held in Genesee County Jail on a $200,000 bond.

His fellow defendants, Lamarr Michael Dukes, of West Bloomfield, and Cody Anthony Brewer, of Wolverine Lake are charged as adults in the school shooting case and are being held in the Genesee Valley Regional Detention Center.